Jeremiah 10:5

The Passion Translation

Their idols are like speechless scarecrows standing in a field; someone must carry them around because they can’t even take a step. So don’t fear them in any way, for they are incapable of doing good or evil.”

Cross References

Isaiah 46:7

They lift it up to their shoulders and have to carry it. They set it on a stand, and there it sits, unable to move from its place. When someone cries out to it, it never answers nor saves anyone from trouble.

1 Corinthians 12:2

For you know full well that when you were unbelievers you were often led astray in one way or another by your worship of idols, which are incapable of talking with you.

1 Corinthians 8:4

Concerning food sacrificed as offerings to idols, we all know that an idol is nothing, for there is no God but one.

Isaiah 46:1

The gods of Babylon, Bel and Nebo, are bowed down and lowered to the ground. They haul away on ox carts their wobbling idols.

Isaiah 45:20

“Come together! Assemble yourselves! Draw near, you refugees from among the nations. Those who parade their powerless wooden idols have no revelation-knowledge. They keep on praying to gods who cannot save them.

Jeremiah 10:14

Everyone is ignorant, knowing nothing. Every craftsman is shamed by the idols they make since their idols are nothing but lifeless lies.

Isaiah 16:12

When Moab comes to their high places to plead with all their might and enter their temples to pray, it will have no effect.